Redding News

Three of the state's congressional leaders want to know why ridership is falling on two of Metro-North's branch lines. Even though business was up last year on the main New Haven line and the Danbury branch, ridership slipped on the Waterbury and New Canaan branches. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen....

Ridership on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line crept up only slightly last year, but that was enough to set a new record. Trains provided about 40.5 million rides in 2016, roughly 20,000 more than in 2015. The heavily used line between Grand Central Terminal and New Haven posted record ridership...

Connecticut taxpayers and Metro-North will pay nearly $22 million to replace or repair the nearly new train cars damaged in a 2013 derailment and wreck in Bridgeport. Three M-8 cars were complete write-offs and four others are undergoing extensive repairs, according to the state transportation...

The runup to Thanksgiving promises to be busy on the roads, the rails and in the air. AAA estimates about 1.9 million people across New England will be traveling on the roads, up more than 2 percent from last year. Factoring into this, AAA said, is gas prices relatively low compared to several...

Thousands of daily rush-hour commuters on Metro-North Railroad's busy New Haven line will have a better chance at seats in two years when more than $300 million worth of new trains should begin arriving. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board on Wednesday approved a contract to buy 60...

REDDING COMMUNITY POSTS

The community is invited to Redding Grange for their Annual Fair to be held Saturday, September 22nd from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, at Redding Grange Hall, 399 Newtown Turnpike Road, Redding, CT. The day will include an Attic Treasure Sale, Baking, Plants, a Raffle and more. Admission is free. Redding...

Stop by the Wilton YMCA on Wednesday, March 22nd from 3-6pm for a YMCA Camp Mohawk Info Night! YMCA Camp Mohawk is an all girls overnight camp in Litchfield, CT for ages 7-15. Camp Mohawk offers a wide variety of daily activities including horseback riding, water sports, performing arts, and much...

HARTFORD, CONN. - Forty-eight students from across the state have been selected as winners of the 2016 CHET Dream Big! Competition, which asks students to share their dreams about life after college through drawings and essays. The Competition received more than 3,700 entries. Aspiring doctors,...

Eversource and The United Illuminating Company, as partners of the Energize Connecticut initiative, are now accepting entries for the 12th annual eesmarts Student Contest. The contest encourages students to demonstrate their knowledge of energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainability by...

Fairfield County

Donald Trump's success as a businessman and his stance toward China are reasons a prominent Southport Republican supports him.

Donald Trump's success as a businessman and his stance toward China are reasons a prominent Southport Republican supports him.

Given the gross generalizations the media have made about Donald J. Trump's supporters, you might consider me an outlier: I am a white-collar professional who lives in the Southport section of Fairfield and takes the train each morning to work in New York City. I am not a big fan of country music,...

Connecticut News

Food and drink are part of the entertainment at MGM Springfield’s new $960 million casino complex, which opened with fanfare (and a literal parade) on Aug. 24. Whether it’s a salad prepared tableside, a blazing cocktail or 100 ounces of IPA flowing from a giant beer tower, MGM hopes to showcase...

The long wait for recreational marijuana sales to begin in Massachusetts is almost over with the first commercial pot shops set to open on Tuesday. It can hardly be termed a robust launch with only two stores opening initially, in Leicester and Northampton. But they can boast of being the first...

More than two years after Massachusetts voters decided via ballot question that recreational marijuana should be legally sold in the Bay State, the first stores selling nonmedical cannabis will open Tuesday. Massachusetts is the first East Coast state to allow retail sales of recreational marijuana,...

In the blockbuster musical “Hamilton,” one of the songs asks the questions “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” The touring company of “Hamilton” is stopping at The Bushnell from Dec. 11 to 30. In conjunction with that show, the Connecticut Historical Society is telling the story of Alexander...

The United Way is offering a batch of ways for Bristol-area residents to get into the holiday spirit: Bell ringing for the Salvation Army, contributing to a Build-a-Bear fundraiser or buying tickets for its winter wine gala. The agency’s biggest campaign requires nothing more than the donation...

A longtime Connecticut resident arrested in connection with the suspected 1987 abduction of his toddler son, who had been living in the state under the mistaken impression that his mother died decades ago, plead not guilty Monday in federal court to a variety of charges stemming from his life on...

Traffic won’t be the only nuisance to tackle this Thanksgiving. It’s going to be cold, and there may be some rain, and possibly some snow, in the run up to Turkey Day. Wednesday night’s low temperature will be 11 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Norton, Mass., and the low Thanksgiving...

Two marijuana stores in Massachusetts were given the green light Friday to begin selling to recreational customers on Tuesday, making them the first commercial pot shops in the eastern United States. Both stores, one located in Northampton and the other in Leicester, both not far from the Connecticut...